Description of Trilogy F1 cucumber variety and tips for growing

The greatest success among summer residents is enjoyed by the varieties of orgurtsy, which together give a harvest, universal in use, responsive to care. These, as a rule, include Trilogy cucumbers of the gherkin type.

Description and characteristics of the variety

Trilogi's gherkin cucumbers are a hybrid variety bred by Dutch breeders. The originator is the Rijk Zwaan company, which has also been supplying seeds to the domestic market since 2011, when the hybrid was entered in the State Register for the Central and North-West regions.

it parthenocarpic cucumbersgrown in the open field.

Trilogdi is a generative hybrid, and therefore plants require increased attention from the moment of sowing.

Description of the variety:

• Scourges are indeterminate with weak branching.
• The flowers are exclusively female, 3-4 pcs. in the axils of the leaves.
• Ripening period - medium early, up to 60 days.
• Resistant to cladosporia (brown spot), cucumber mosaic viruses of various types, powdery mildew.
• It tolerates stressful situations well.
• Productivity - up to 6 kg / m², and the main part of the zelents are given by plants in the first month of fruiting.
• Transportability is high, but fresh shelf life is short.
• The appointment is universal.

Description of fruits:

• cylindrical shape, length - up to 11 cm, diameter - about 4 cm;
• the average weight of the fruit is 60-70 g;
• the skin is bumpy, dense, dark green in color with short, pronounced light strokes and white thorns;
• the pulp of the fruit is fragrant, juicy, crunchy, there is no bitterness.

Features of agricultural technology

The Trilogy F1 cucumber requires an air and moisture permeable soil with a high level of fertility. Planting seedlings and sowing seeds is carried out in open or protected ground, heated to 15-17 ° C.

The variety does not like the neighborhood with bee-pollinated varieties and types of cucumbers.

The main crop is formed on the main stem, therefore, the hybrid is formed according to the following scheme:

1. Before the trellis remove all stepsons, and the flowers and ovaries are left.
2. The blinding zone is formed at a height of about half a meter.
3. The lash that has reached the trellis is twisted around the crossbar, pinch at a distance of 50-100 cm so that a pair of lateral branches remains.
4. The left shoots of the first and second order are pinched over the 4th leaf.

The number of ovaries is subject to normalization, but the number of fruits is determined individually, based on the conditions and condition of the plant.

Special care for the crop is required at the first stage of fruiting, when the main part of the crop is formed.

Watering rules:

• before flowering - moderate, rare, as the topsoil dries out;
• after the appearance of the first flowers, watered twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, in small portions;
• water for irrigation should be warm so as not to provoke diseases of the root system.

Top dressing is applied every 2 weeks, alternating organic matter and potassium-phosphorus fertilizers.

For Trilogy, the use of complex instant fertilizers is optimal.

Advantages and disadvantages

Cucumbers are considered unpretentious in cultivation and care, they bear fruit amicably, give a high quality harvest, suitable for consumption fresh or harvested for the winter. Resistance to diseases and sudden changes in weather is especially appreciated.

The disadvantages include a short shelf life: cucumbers quickly lose their original taste. Also, the hybrid lacks immunity to peronosporosis.

Reviews of summer residents

Valentina, Krasnodar Territory:

I appreciated the Trilogi cucumbers - they are smooth, crispy, tasty, ripen early. Powdery mildew does not take them, they do not outgrow, they are excellent for conservation.Here are just expensive seeds, but with such a harvest, it's not scary.

Irina, Yekaterinburg:

Trilogy was grown from seed. I liked very much in taste, size, yield. True, they did not bear fruit for long, but managed to salt and pickle almost everything.

Galina, Bashkiria:

Very hardy hybrid, did not get sick with late blight, although it raged throughout the season. Juicy, crispy, delicious fresh, lightly salted, salty, pickled.

Love, Ryazan:

I have been planting for several years in a row, I listened to the reviews of a neighbor, an experienced gardener about him. Early, tasty, not sick, tolerates drought well, prolonged rains, temperature drops.

Trilogi cucumbers are a good solution not only for summer residents, but also for medium and large farms, since high yields more than pay off all costs.